5 Essential Habits of Highly Effective Developers

Get Into Gear!

The Secret Developer
3 min readMar 16, 2023
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Your primary habit as a software developer should be coding. If you want to become a great developer you do need more than technical skills and impressing others with code golf.

You’ll need to work to maximize your potential and excel in your broader career. This article is about helping you become the best version of yourself and an excellent software developer.

Together we are going to explore five essential habits that the highly effective developers I know consistently practice. I want to help you be the best software developer you can be, and recommend that you integrate these habits into your daily routine.

Why hasn’t LeetCode yet been mentioned?

Prioritize Continuous Learning

Whatever flavor of the software developer you are the tech landscape is constantly evolving.

You need to think about your area in terms of languages, tools, and frameworks. You can extend this into what type of software development you’re doing.

  • Are you truly Agile, and should you be?
  • How are you helping your company in its aims?
  • Could you learn about tangential technologies in your…

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